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The Order dates its history from 1905 when Mother Millicent Mary SPB (formerly Millicent Taylor)<ref>[http://www.oxford.anglican.org/who-we-are/history-of-the-diocese/calendar-of-commemoration/mother-millicent-mary/ Calendar of Commemoration, Diocese of Oxford]</ref> took vows in the [[St Jude's Church, Birmingham|parish of St Jude, Birmingham]].<ref>See Guide to the Religious Communities of the Anglican Communion, authorised by the Advisory Council on Religious Communities, published by A R Mowbray, London, 1951, pages 53-54.</ref> The community which formed around her became established, living in [[King's Heath]], [[HendonBirmingham]]<ref>''The religious communities of the Church of England'' (1918); Allan T. Cameron</ref> and in 1916 it moved to [[Burnham Abbey]] near [[Maidenhead]], where it is still based today, living an enclosed community life,<ref>See official entry on [http://communities.anglicancommunion.org/communities/detail.cfm?ID=103&types=byname Anglican Communion website].</ref> within the [[Diocese of Oxford]].<ref>Entry on diocesan [http://www.oxford.anglican.org/about-the-diocese/general-information/religious-communities-in-the-diocese.html website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120712204141/http://www.oxford.anglican.org/about-the-diocese/general-information/religious-communities-in-the-diocese.html |date=2012-07-12 }}.</ref> Built in 1266, Burnham Abbey had been a house of Augustinian Canonesses until the [[Reformation]].

In 1957 a group of five sisters established a priory in the Kingdom of [[Lesotho]],. whichThis hasin since (1966) become an autonomous province of the Order, and also spread (1980) into [[South Africa]] in 1980.<ref>See this autonomous community's entry at the [http://communities.anglicancommunion.org/communities/detail.cfm?ID=102&types=byname website] of religious communities.</ref>

Millicent Taylor was born in India in 1869; her father, [[Reynell Taylor]] was an army officer. At the age of 22, she declared her wish for the religious life but became a parish worker in poor parishes in east London, Reading and Birmingham. In 1905, she made her first profession on St Luke's Day, 1905, in [[St Jude's Church, [[Birmingham]]. She resigned as Superior in 1942 because of ill health and died in 1956.

* [http://www.burnhamabbey.org Community website].